The mobile app usage has grown by 11 percent on an average with social, messaging and sports related apps showing a growth in excess of 40 percent. Flurry has tracked around 940,000 apps across 2.1 bn devices and over 3.2 trillion sessions.

Some highlights from 2016, according to Flurry: Time spent in Social and Messaging apps grew by an astounding 394 percent over the last year, proving to be the driver that helped mobile achieve its year-over-year time-spent growth of 69 percent.

Flurry Analytics, part of the Yahoo Mobile Developer Suite, today announced its annual global mobile and application usage study. In its eighth year, the study offers interesting insights on global mobile app usage and trends from the last year on over 2.1 billion smart devices and 3.2 trillion sessions.

Time spent on social and messaging apps grew by an astounding 394 per cent over the last year, proving to be the driver that helped mobiles achieve year-over-year time-spent growth of 69 per cent globally, a report by Yahoo-owned research firm Flurry said on Friday. Overall app usage grew …

Messaging and Social were the biggest drivers of the growth of mobile app usage. Together they registered a 44% growth in usage and whopping 394% growth in time spent in 2016. The impressive growth in mobile app usage can be attributed mainly to few factors.